Bartók and the Grotesque

Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), BartÃ³k engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that BartÃ³k's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While BartÃ³k developed each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which BartÃ³k was composing.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-10-28
Mått150 x 244 x undefined mm
Vikt486 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoyal Musical Association Monographs
Antal sidor192
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780754657774

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